Curriculum Vitae

Tianhe Wang · tianhew [at] princeton.edu · ORCID Download as PDF

Research interests

Flexibility in human learning and decision-making. Computational principles of motor control and skill acquisition. The role of the cerebellum in cognition.

Positions

C.V. Starr Fellow
Princeton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University

Education

2020–2026
PhD in Psychology, concentration in Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley
Advisor: Richard Ivry
2016–2020
BSc in Biological Science
School of Life Science, Peking University, Beijing
Honors thesis: How children and adolescents balance between equity and efficiency

Manuscripts under review

2025
T Wang*, T Lam, JA Taylor, RB Ivry
Distinct Implicit Contributions to Action Selection and Action Execution in Sensorimotor Adaptation
BioRxiv

Peer-reviewed manuscripts

2025
T Wang*, RB Ivry
Contextual effects during sensorimotor adaptation are an emergent property of population coding in the cerebellum
Science Advances
2025
T Wang*, J Li, RB Ivry
Attention defines the context for implicit sensorimotor adaptation
Journal of Neuroscience
2025
T Wang*, Y Fang, D Whitney
Sequential effects in reaching reveal efficient coding in motor planning
Science Advances
2024
T Wang*, RJ Morehead, JS Tsay*, RB Ivry
The origin of movement biases during reaching
eLife
2024
T Wang*, G Avraham, JS Tsay, SJ Abram, RB Ivry
Perturbation variability does not influence implicit sensorimotor adaptation
PLOS Computational Biology
2024
T Wang*, G Avraham, JS Tsay, T Thummala, RB Ivry
Advanced feedback enhances sensorimotor adaptation
Current Biology
2023
S Chen, T Wang, Y Bao
Serial dependence in timing at the perceptual level being modulated by working memory
PsyCh Journal
2023
NM van Mastrigt, JS Tsay, T Wang, G Avraham, SJ Abram, K van der Kooij, JBJ Smeets, RB Ivry
Implicit reward-based motor learning
Experimental Brain Research
2023
T Wang*, Y Luo, RB Ivry, JS Tsay, E Pöppel, Y Bao*
A unitary mechanism underlies adaptation to both local and global environmental statistics in time perception
PLOS Computational Biology
2022
JS Tsay, T Najafi, L Schuck, T Wang, RB Ivry
Implicit sensorimotor adaptation is preserved in Parkinson’s disease
Brain Communications
2021
T Wang*, JA Taylor
Implicit adaptation to mirror reversal is in the correct coordinate system but the wrong direction
Journal of Neurophysiology
2021
T Wang, Z Zhu, I Kana, Y Yu, H He, K Wei*
Accuracy of hand localization is subject-specific and improved without performance feedback
Scientific Reports

Fellowships & awards

2025
NCM Scholarship Award, Society for the Neural Control of Movement
2022
Travel Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
2021
Department Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley
2020
Shentong Distinguished Graduate Award, Peking University

Invited talks

Listed in full on the talks page.

Teaching

2023
Graduate student instructor — Human Neuroanatomy
Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
2021
Graduate student instructor — Cognitive Neuroscience
Department of Psychology, UC Berkeley
2018
Undergraduate teaching instructor — Methods in Psychology Research
Department of Psychology, Peking University

Service

2023–2024
Member, Searching Committee for the Biological Basis of Behavior, UC Berkeley
2023
Graduate student mentor, Research Experience Pathways in Psychology Program, UC Berkeley
Ad hoc reviewer
Journal of Neuroscience; Cerebral Cortex; Communications Biology; Journal of Neurophysiology; Scientific Reports; npj Science of Learning; Human Movement Science; Journal of Behavioral and Brain Science

Advising & mentorship

Undergraduate students. * indicates honors thesis student.
2025–present
Noah A Math — UC Berkeley
2025–present
Mihail Dimitrov — UC Berkeley
2025–present
Ijin Yu — UC Berkeley
2025–present
Suqing Xie — UC Berkeley
2024
Mary Swanson-Wunder — UC Berkeley
2024–present
Maoxin M Xia* — Wuhan University
2024–present
Amber Jiang — UC Berkeley
2023–present
Yuling Li — UC Berkeley
2023
Marina J Armstrong — UC Berkeley
2022–2024
Tony Lam — UC Berkeley
2022–2024
Yifan Fang — UC Berkeley
2021–2023
Jialin J Li — UC Berkeley
2021–2024
Tanvi Thummala* — UC Berkeley